Machine Union interview questions

The interview took about 3 hours. It was meeting with several different team members; discussing the role and the type of mentality for the job. Questions asked pertained to the line of command and how to respond to problems under this framework. Furthermore, company history, culture and motivation was discussed.

The interview was given by the boss of the company. He seemed emotionally driven to raise my enthusiasm for unexciting titles in development and persuade me into accepting the ridiculously low-wage, non-negotiable offer. It wasn't much of an interview in terms of assessing an artist's qualifications (if you have solid work in your portfolio, was referred by an employee, and have an agreeable attitude, you are for the most part guaranteed to get in). The question then becomes whether or not I wanted to accept the offer. At at the time I just graduated from art school and needed the experience, so I was easy to exploit. Once I accepted the offer, I learn what would become one of the most painful and frustrating experiences in my professional career...dealing with levels of incompetence that I never expected from a company that claims to work with the biggest publishers in the world. I was never told my rate of pay until I signed a unreasonably restrictive NDA. The boss would finally state that the starting pay is around $12/hour, and then proceed to punch in numbers into a calculator that roughly equals my asking price, if massive overtime is put into account. I asked for the entry-level industry standard of $40-45k, and the boss would blatantly lie and say that no artist gets paid that much in the industry. The entire process feels predatory, similar to how a shady car salesman hustles a poor naive college student into buying a lemon.